Deferred maintenance and master planning
Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 12:00pm CT | Live and on-demand
Leveraging operational data to inform strategic infrastructure investment
Master planning has guided healthcare organizations for decades, yet aging infrastructure and decades of underinvestment have created critical, deferred maintenance challenges. Healthcare leaders must define, track and objectively communicate facility conditions strategically, ensuring all options for infrastructure investment and innovative financing are considered.
This session will demonstrate how leveraging operational data can defend strategic infrastructure investment, providing a data-driven, objective and risk-prioritized approach. It will also introduce how financial models like Energy as a Service (EaaS) can transform capital planning, setting the stage for deeper dives into these solutions.
Strategic asset planning, risk and funding solutions
Healthcare organizations face growing pressure to improve margins while meeting increasing community needs, modernizing facilities and addressing aging infrastructure. Decades of underinvestment have driven deferred maintenance challenges, making it critical for leaders to strategically evaluate facility conditions and infrastructure needs alongside growth initiatives.
This session explores how operational data, benchmarking and risk-based infrastructure metrics can strengthen master planning and support more informed investment decisions.
Attendees will learn how to objectively communicate facility needs, prioritize long-term investments and explore innovative financing models such as Energy as a Service (EaaS) to help bridge capital gaps and support sustainable infrastructure modernization.
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Meet the speakers
Kyle Smith
Senior Director, Finance Solutions | Siemens
As Senior Director of Finance Solutions for Siemens Smart Infrastructure, Kyle leads the development and delivery of innovative financing solutions for healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations. He specializes in creating strategic funding approaches that help customers address deferred maintenance, advance sustainability initiatives and modernize critical energy infrastructure. Kyle remains actively involved in commercial negotiations, transaction structuring, and the deployment of Energy as a Service (EaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service solutions that enable organizations to implement infrastructure upgrades, renewable energy systems and battery storage projects with little or no upfront capital investment.
With more than 20 years of experience spanning the power and finance sectors, Kyle has held leadership roles in project finance, strategic planning, management consulting and energy project development. He began his career as a project engineer supporting large-scale cogeneration projects in the U.S. and internationally, providing him with a unique blend of hands-on technical expertise and commercial acumen. Kyle holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Tennessee and a BS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University.
Mark Mochel
Founder and CEO | Infrastructure Investment HC, L.L.C. (I2HC)
Before founding I2HC, Mark was a Strategic Account Executive at Brightly, A Siemens Company. Prior to Brightly, he was a Co-Founder and Senior Vice President at Facility Health Inc., where he was instrumental in introducing new infrastructure investment solutions and benchmarking capabilities to the healthcare industry.
Mark has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, an MBA from The University of Michigan and has held executive leadership roles in multiple industries, providing a unique perspective on the challenges facing healthcare facility management today.
As an advocate for increased infrastructure investment in our industry, and a member of the ASHE National Advisory Board, Mark is passionate about sharing his experience with all who serve and are served through the environment of care.